What do you like best?

Protecting our endpoints from malware has become easy with Bitdefender GravityZone. GravityZone is the new management console from Bitdefender for business/enterprise grade protection. It's been built from the ground up to give a light and agile protection to our endpoints, mobile devices and virtual environments.

What do you dislike?

The size of the client installer. It's about 400 MB, due to the fact that it consolidates the 32 bits and 64 bits versions. It also keeps the same size no matter if you decide that you won't install some of the components of the antimalware protection (like firewall or content filter).

Recommendations to others considering the product

Gravitiy Zone is the new management console from Bitdefender and it has been buillt from the ground up, considering two main trends: virtualization and cloud. Hence, you can opt to do hybrid analisys on the endpoints to speed up the analysis process, leveraging on the resources of the Bitdefender Cloud. And regarding virtualization, you can install security appliances in your hypervisor, so you don't have to install an agent on each and every virtual machine you have. This way the antimalware cause less consumption of resources to your virtual environment.

What business problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?

We have opted for the Cloud version of GravityZone, since we have some clients in our main offices and a couple more on a branch offfice in a different country. Using the cloud version of GravityZone makes you forget these endpoints are on different networks, the administration is seamless, no matter the endpoints are not all in the same LAN.

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What do you like best?

Central location to manage the bitdefender application on end user stations. This allows me to remotely install bitdefender without disterbing the end user if bitdefender needed to be installed on an end user pc

What do you dislike?

When building out new workstations, it does not always pull PC list from Active Directory. Often I would have to get on the machine and install it directly though the PC

Recommendations to others considering the product

My role is to use this to install bitdefender on workstations.

This is a neat tool to update existing workstations but not new stations. New stations do not populate in the time that i set up a station and will often have to remote onto the station and download the software directly and then install.

What business problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?

we are using this as our primary Anti-virus tool. with this software we are able to remotely install the software with no user interruptions

What do you like best?

Ease of setup. Options are easy to understand and informative. Also highly effective. We deployed to about 500 clients in under a week. We have noticed a 30% drop in active infections. Their support team is responsive to false positives which we do run into quite a bit with their web scanner.

What do you dislike?

The relay function which was one of our primary reasons for selecting has several unintended features. Most of the issues are likely due to the unique structure of our network and highly mobile workforce. The relay just would not function effectively for us. It caused many duplicate systems to appear in varying states of install and reporting bot online and offline at the same time with as many as 5 different ip address's. While the promise of lowering bandwidth was very attractive the over all overhead in managing it just was not worth it.

Recommendations to others considering the product

Really work out the trial before purchasing. We glossed over it and were surprised at how some things functioned

What business problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?

What do you like best?

Easy to set up, and the price is reasonable for total protection. I like how I can have it on many different devices including my Android phone. I also can put it on my wife's devices as well. I also like the Android store monitoring when you download an app.

What do you dislike?

Hasn't yet caught any malware, surprised any hasn't been detected on my devices yet. The software runs in the background and I wish there was a bit more interaction in letting me know when scans are occurring and when false positives are encountered

Recommendations to others considering the product

After reasearch of all anti virus software. This is the most effective.

What business problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?

Protection for client contact information. Having that information protected helps my business run efficiently.

What do you like best?

Overall, this has been an easy to work with product that does a good job. Most everything is quickly accessible from the web console. It is generally intuitive to use with good access to relevant information. Deployment of clients was the easiest of the end point security products we have used. Chat based support has been excellent so far.

What do you dislike?

Some items are not intuitive, at least when first learning the product. We had an instance where the firewall was blocking some traffic, but did not find any record in the client or server logs. I am also not finding the info about specific malware on their site to be easily accessible.

Recommendations to others considering the product

This is a very good endpoint security option. We have found it to be very easy to use and deploy.

What business problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?

It has stopped malware that other products have not in the past. This has saved the time and effort necessary to restore infected files and such.

Deployment has taken the least effort of any end point solution we have used.

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